I've bought a fresh clam cocktail from a street vendor in Ensenada.....but I wouldn't buy meat off of a truck cruising through my neighborhood. I've had those guys come to my door two or three times. I just politely decline. But, I don't answer my door with a gun in my hand, hidden or not, unless I
have to, and there is a good reason to be ready for a fight. I have a gun handy, either on my person or on the table by the door, but not drawn and in hand. To each his own, but I think that's a level of paranoia I don't want to live with.......and yes, I do maintain Condition Yellow. I just don't think that every person who comes to my door is a reason to go to Condition Orange, even if they don't have my sartorial standards. I have the ability to observe people approaching my front door. If I don't like what I see, I just don't answer the door. But for the most part, those door to door people are just trying to make a living, and they are no threat to me. They're annoying, but then I've been there and done that too when I was younger, selling magazines door to door. I meant nobody any harm, and I was grateful for the occasional kindness shown me, even if people didn't want to buy my magazines.
Now what really frosts my butt is those guys who walk through my flower beds to hang a piece of unwanted junk mail on my front door, and walk though my other flowerbed on the way out, refusing to take back their piece of paper from me. I'd shoot one of them in a heartbeat.
